1, liver-clearing traditional Chinese medicine
(1) honeysuckle
Honeysuckle has been known as a good medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials since ancient times. Sweet, cold and fragrant, it is an important ingredient in traditional herbal tea.
Honeysuckle can clear away heat and toxic materials, effectively eliminate toxins in the body, and prevent and inhibit acne and the growth of acne. Honeysuckle can cool blood and remove blood stasis, promote cell metabolism, and effectively remove all kinds of spots and dark spots.
Therefore, honeysuckle tea is also a good drink choice when nourishing and protecting the liver. Take a little honeysuckle, put it in a cup, brew it with boiling water and let it cool. Season with rock sugar or honey water.
(2) Lotus plumule
Lotus plumule, also known as lotus seed, bitter seed and lotus plumule, was first seen in the edible herbal medicine at the end of Tang Dynasty, and it was the dried germ in the mature seeds of Nelumbo nucifera, a perennial aquatic plant of Nymphaeaceae. When harvesting lotus seeds in autumn, peel them off, take out green embryos (lotus plumule) and dry them in the sun. It has the effects of clearing away heart fire, stopping bleeding and fixing essence.
Recommend lotus seed and Prunella vulgaris beverage. 5g of plumula Nelumbinis, 5g of Prunella vulgaris/0/5g of kloc-0, and decoction of offspring tea. Lotus plumule can clear away heat and relieve annoyance. Prunella vulgaris has the function of clearing liver and lowering blood pressure, and can be used for hypertension, vexation, fever, dizziness and headache.
(3) Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in summer diet therapy in Guangdong, which belongs to the category of clearing heat and purging fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature and bitter in taste, and has the effects of clearing away fire and improving eyesight, dispersing stagnation and reducing swelling. Commonly used for conjunctival congestion, headache, dizziness, carbuncle, breast carbuncle, goiter, lymph node tuberculosis, hypertension and hyperplasia of mammary glands.
Clearing liver and purging fire, Prunella vulgaris 12g, Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum each 10g are recommended. Soak Prunella vulgaris and mulberry leaves in proper amount of water for half an hour, then cook for another half an hour, and finally add chrysanthemum to cook for 3 minutes, so as to drink tea instead. You can season it with rock sugar or honey.
(4) Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum is rich in vitamin A, which is an important substance to protect eye health and a good medicine for treating various eye diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. Chrysanthemum tea can make people clear-headed and bright-eyed, especially for dry eye caused by excessive use of eyes. Chrysanthemum has the functions of dispelling wind, clearing heat, clearing liver, improving eyesight, nourishing liver and reducing fire, and can relieve symptoms such as bitter mouth, headache and sore throat. It is best to choose Chrysanthemum morifolium or Chrysanthemum morifolium (that is, the unopened bud of Chrysanthemum morifolium) for calming liver fire.
Can take a little chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, jasmine, soak in water to make tea, clear away heat and detoxify, suitable for preventing and treating wind-heat cold, sore throat, carbuncle and so on. And taking it often can reduce the fire, and it has the effect of calming the mind and calming the nerves and thinking quietly.
(5) Dandelion
Dandelion is a common species and has great medicinal value. So in spring and summer, you might as well eat some fresh dandelion to reduce the fire and defeat the liver fire. Dandelion is cold, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating carbuncle and resolving hard mass, and belongs to the category of Chinese herbal medicine clearing away heat and toxic materials. All kinds of boils, etc. Mashed with fresh dandelion, externally applied to the affected area, or decocted in water alone for oral administration, all have good results.
Dandelion has a good therapeutic effect, especially in spring. Dandelion is best picked in April and May in early spring, before it blooms. At this time, it has the best effects of clearing fire, diminishing inflammation and resisting cancer. Nowadays, many rural areas still have the habit of eating dandelion, which is a kind of home-cooked wild vegetable. Usually, after blanching, the bitterness is reduced, and then mixed with minced garlic, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, sesame oil and salt, it tastes fragrant and very pathogenic.
(6) Mint
Mint has the function of soothing the liver, which helps to relieve the emotional irritability caused by excessive liver fire. Making tea with mint can dispel wind, clear heat and reduce liver fire. Peppermint tea has a cool feeling and is a good medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials and diuresis. It is worth noting that mint is not suitable for lying-in women and small babies and should be avoided as much as possible.
American scientists also recommend putting mint tea in a cup and boiling water for 15 minutes, and drinking it when the essential oil has not evaporated, so that the adjuvant treatment effect on gastrointestinal discomfort is better.
(7) Hedyotis diffusa
Traditionally, it has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. Used for appendicitis, furuncle, damp-heat jaundice, dysuria, etc. Local treatment of sores, furuncles, carbuncles, swelling and poisonous snake bites. Hedyotis diffusa can not only clear the heat of lung, stomach, liver and spleen, but also remove the dampness of middle energizer and remove blood stasis, so it kills three birds with one stone.
Take Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (first decocted in a pan until it is slightly yellow), Abrus cantonensis 50g, Hedyotis diffusa 30g, Fructus Jujubae 10, and 2000ml of clear water, boil it into 750ml, remove the dregs and drink the soup, which has the effects of protecting liver and reducing enzymes.
(8) Mulberry leaves
Mulberry leaves can disperse wind and heat, clear lung and moisten dryness, calm liver and improve eyesight, cool blood and stop bleeding. Mulberry leaves can be used to treat blushing and shame caused by wind and heat, and also to clear liver and purge fire, and can be used in combination with chrysanthemum, cassia seed and plantain seed.
If the liver fire is too strong, you can try to use "mulberry leaf chrysanthemum porridge" to recuperate: first prepare 15 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, 30 grams of fresh chrysanthemum, and 50 grams of japonica rice. Decoct Mulberry Leaves and Chrysanthemum with 300ml of clear water, filter out the juice, and then add 300ml of clear water for decoction. After that, the juice and japonica rice obtained from the first decoction are poured into it, boiled with low fire 1 hour and taken. Every day 1 time.
(9) Gentiana scabra
Gentiana scabra is a traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and drying dampness. Its nature is bitter and cold, belonging to the liver and gallbladder meridian. It has the effects of clearing away damp-heat in liver and gallbladder and purging fire. It was first listed as a traditional Chinese medicine in Shenlong Herbal Classic, and has a long history of being used as medicine in China.
Gentian herb can clear liver and reduce fire, while bamboo leaves can clear heart and relieve annoyance. First,100g of gentian and 20g of bamboo leaves are boiled in water, and the juice is taken instead of water and100g of japonica rice is boiled into porridge for breakfast. Suitable for insomnia, impatience and irritability, red eyes and bitter taste, belonging to liver depression and fire.
(10) Lotus leaf
Lotus leaf tea can reduce liver fire, and it can also regulate depression, mental stress and other adverse symptoms. Lotus leaf tastes bitter and slightly astringent, and its nature is cold and cool. Entering the heart, liver and spleen meridians has the effects of relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. Mainly used for treating summer heat, polydipsia, headache and dizziness, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and promoting spleen yang. It has a good effect on treating summer heat diarrhea and is often used with lentils.
Lotus leaf belongs to cold food, so friends with weak constitution should not drink it often. Especially for menstrual women, it is absolutely not suitable to take lotus leaf drinks, which will make menstrual blood unsmooth or blocked, and even amenorrhea in severe cases.
2. What kinds of fire-reducing teas are there?
1. Olive honey tea
Take 3 grams of olive, boat-fruited Sterculia and green tea, and honey 1 spoon. First, put olives in the pot and cook for a while, then take olive water to brew boat-fruited Sterculia and green tea for a while. When the water is slightly cold, add honey and mix well. This fire-reducing tea can clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve sore throat and moisten throat, and is especially suitable for patients with yin deficiency and dry heat.
2. Luoshen scented tea
Dried ginseng flower 10g, and appropriate amount of crystal sugar or honey. Put a proper amount of Luoshen flower into the pot, add water to boil over medium heat, turn off the fire after 3 minutes, and soak in the remaining temperature for 5 minutes. After filtering off the tea residue, pour the tea into a cup, and add rock sugar or honey (high temperature will destroy the nutrition of honey) to increase the sweetness after Luoshen scented tea cools slightly.
3. Chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea
Choose 4-5 pieces of Chrysanthemum morifolium and 4-5 pieces of Lycium barbarum, slowly pour in boiling water with a temperature above 95 degrees along the wall of the cup, and drink it after 3-5 minutes.
4. Boat-fruited Sterculia licorice tea
Prepare 6 grams of boat-fruited Sterculia and 2-3 pieces of licorice, put the boat-fruited Sterculia and licorice into a cup, pour boiling water, soak for about 10 minutes and drink.
5. Siraitia grosvenorii scented tea
Take a proper amount of Siraitia grosvenorii flower, put it in a cup, add boiling water and drink it instead of tea, which can clear lung and moisten dryness, and has a good improvement effect on sore throat and hoarseness.
6. Prunella vulgaris tea
Prunella vulgaris 12g, mulberry leaf 10g, chrysanthemum 10g. Soak Prunella vulgaris and mulberry leaves in proper amount of water for half an hour, then cook for another half an hour, and finally add chrysanthemum for 3 minutes, so as to substitute tea.
7.kudingcha
Take 3-5g of Kuding tea and brew it in boiling water for 3-5min, then you can drink it. If you have uncontrollable impatience and irritability in your life, often have nightmares at night, and you are very nervous and afraid, you can judge that you are full of liver fire, which is called "getting angry with liver fire" in Chinese medicine. When you have this symptom, you can soak in water with Kuding tea. Because Kuding tea is cold, it is not recommended to drink it under the condition of asymptomatic and cold constitution.